Su'cuy anade! I have been a Star Wars fan for a while now, and I love learning languages and stuff for fun, so when I found out about Mando'a, I was hooked. I'm doing some Mando'a courses on Memrise, but you know what would be awesome? A MANDO'A DUOLINGO COURSE!! :) Sometimes I speak it out loud to others, but mostly I just speak it to myself because I'm the only person I know irl that speaks Mando'a.

Hi, all.I've studied Mando'a since first reading the RC series by Karen Traviss.I'm constantly translating things for my friends & family into Mando'a, particularly my younger brother.Still figuring out the armor color scheme & design so I don't have that yet.My favorite phrase in both English & Mando'a:"Ret'lini ven cuyir jate.""Plan B better be good."

English is not my first language, even though I am confident enough in my usage of it. My first language is actually German, so, concerning Mando'a, I am naturally inclined to 'speak' it more like it is written (rendering an ee as a double 'eh' or a long 'eh' instead of a 'i' sound), thus I probably would speak a very strange accent of Mando'a ... well, I guess in a whole galaxy, there would be a lot of accents - even more considering that there are also a lot of different species involved.

I'm a general language enthusiast - which was part of the reason I liked the RC books (I've been conlanging on and off for ages, both with learning fictional languages and creating my own, and whenever I find one that naturally integrates itself in a setting, I instantly get hooked). While I know some words in Mando'a, my biggest interest really is the grammar and structure of it. It's part of the reason I finally decided to actually register on this forum - while exploring things on my own is nice and all, discussing some aspects would be more rewarding. Especially since there are certainly things I wouldn't even think of.

I am trying my hand at creating a lexicon for Mando'a considering interlinear parsing (thus venturing quite deeply into word structures), yet since I have to type in everything by hand it is very slow in taking form, and even slower since I need to find rules to certain things and put them in a way the parser can understand. The goal is to have a lexicon from which a dictionary can be created (using the main forms of words) and which can be used as basis for the parser, so it would correctly interpret a Mando'a sentence.

I've been into Mando'a off and on since 2009 or so, it's about time I start doing something with it and hopefully get some degree of fluency. Not there yet, but I can translate. Judging by my past attempts at translating into Latin, though, that may be a bit optimistic.

Su'cuy vode,I'm delighted to see this forum is still active. I played the Republic Commando game years ago and have read the books several times since then. Currrently I have embarked on reading "Bloodlines" and when I came upon Boba Fett not speaking Mando'a I didn't want to have THAT in common. Like most Mando women I have raised kids as warriors and now that they have (almost) left home, I try to follow a route of my own, a bit of bounty hunting, house keeping for runaway clones, keeping an eye on the war aka football (Bundesliga and Ligue1) and so on.I hope I'll be able to brush up my Mando'a here a bit.Ret'!An'jy

I'm Jax. I think I should start by saying that english is not my mother tongue, and although I consider myself fluent in english I sometimes still make mistakes.I'm new to learning Mando'a and I'm looking forward to learning even more.

Guess it was inevitable I'd sooner or later find myself here - where warrior culture thrives, I am soon to follow. It is my profession.Not kidding here - I am a military historian by profession (will be getting my PhD this year), and I do not see why the study of war and warrior should be limited to actual historical events. What is generally referred to as "popular culture" has, in the past, inspired historical events, shaped political decisions, and tends to turn into "classical culture" at some vague point in the distant past.My approach is to take popular culture seriously as a form of culture from the get-go, and anybody who denies how influential the Star Wars franchise has become really hasn't paid attention.And so I've finally come here. What can I say, I yearn to learn - in our day and age, the pages of history are often written online, and who knows if what I learn here might not end up in an actual scientific publication?

I have been a long time fan of the mandalorians, the Karen Travis Commando novels are my favorites.

Recently I have lost my father and some years ago my grandfather and I would like to honor them with a tattoo.

I wanted to tattoo the phrase : Aliit ori'shya tal'din, or Family is more than blood, on my shoulderI want to do this in the runes but I do not know what to do with the " ' "... So I turn to the experts here ;p

Su'cuy! I am a Seventh-Day Adventist teen girl with a love for horses, cats, dragons, and sci-fi. One of my favourite games is Minecraft, though I haven't played for a while. I hope to create a Mando village using it. . . someday.

Question: What's the plural for beskad? I'm making a pair out of cardboard (currently gluing all the pieces together, which is slow-going) and I want to know the correct word when showing them off ^.~

I don't know how well I'd fit into Mando culture, mostly because I can't handle spicy food. :p